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Every morning when I turn on the computer and check my E-mail I will have 15 to 20 E-mails soliciting me to buy penny stocks. I of course delete them, but within an hours time I will end up with 4 or 5 more. I delete those, and before the day is out the cycle starts over again. This has been going on for months.

Is there anyway to stop this nonsense ? Thanks for any help you can give me.

Take Care,
Dennis

EDIT: Tho these E-mails are supposedly being sent from different sources, they all have the exact same format. They all come with attachments that I am sure includes some sort of monster that can not wait to get inside my computer.

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I am assuming you are using MS Outlook as a mail reader, since M$ Outbreak is the most common mail reader out there. Outlook lets you set up rules to filter out messages as 'spam'. You can set up rules using the rules wizard from the tools menu.

Also, try searching this forum for "SPAM". I've made several posts with that word in the topic or body of the post.

One other thing to consider is this, does your ISP/Mail provider have the option of turning on a "spam" filter. There are also excellent 3rd party software applications that target spam. Another is to use throwaway email addy's when you sign up for stuff or need to register for something. Keep a singular email for personal/ family use, and never use it beyond that purpose. Also if you have your preview pane open you have just as well "opened" that spam and confirmed a "live one". Which just generates more. hth

Be (Spam) Safe

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